Oh look here’s the hopelessness and nihilism, that’ll teach ‘m!

I think you’re confusing two things:
a) “my games should have enemies in them that are clearly bad” is a take an average person like in the Reddit thread can have without being aligned with the conservative anti-woke movement
b) us leftists can still have discussions about whether that’s a good take

Isn’t the presence of more techno optimist conservatives a crucial compounding variable? Curious about the differences in climate action and lifestyle changes when controlling for left-right political alignment

Note that giving prospective home buyers a tax credit will directly raise housing prices by that amount, as demonstrated by European countries that tried this. It’s not even a mildly good technocratic fix

Holy crap they cancelled Lord of the Rings Online?!

Also a lot of things are underpriced compared to the enjoyment you get out of them? Video games are not commodities and people buy them for a wide variety of reasons (hype, being a fan, impulse buy, wanting to collect, streamer playing it,…) that are not “how many hours of entertainment per dollar”

Awh then your other charger doesn’t have to sit in the corner and watch as the one charger is plugged in

Reject modernity (critiquing news on the Trump administration), embrace tradition (dunking on shitty books)

Which then turned into the Dutch Republic: relatively decentralised political and religious governance that stood in contrast to the monarchs of the Spanish Habsburgs and the French crown

Also politically quite the opposite as @deaflowers.bsky.social claims: the Dutch Revolt saw the northern Netherlands break from Spanish Habsburg rule precisely because Philip II attempted to centralise Catholic religious authority

After I canceled Game Pass (years ago) I just gave myself a $10/month budget for buying new games in Steam sales. Since then I feel way less pressure to "get my money's worth" on a Game Pass subscription and I'm able to buy and spend time with the games I like most

Damn that’s good freelance work, I love both those articles

Use Darkroom as a Lightroom equivalent and jump to Affinity Photo for more detailed Photoshop-style touch ups

The HAT

Reflexively went on Goodreads to add this to my reading list but alas

Big “some of you will die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” energy

Except that… doesn’t happen on this website? You can’t just make stuff up to be mad at

(technically that’s autoandrophilia)